(This will be a series of interesting stories related to music)
In 1969, The Rolling Stones released an album entitled “Let it Bleed”. The opening track was
Gimme Shelter. G
imme Shelter is arguably one of the Stones’ greatest and most popular songs.
The Stones were recording the song late at night when producer Jimmy Miller said “I hear a girl on this track”. A heavily-pregnant Merry Clayton was summoned out of bed by telephone to come to the studio. Her hair in curlers, she then sang the memorable “Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away” three times. (More on Clayton's story can be found
here)
At about 2:59 into the song, Clayton's voice cracks under the strain, once during the second refrain on the word "shot", then on the word "murder" during the third refrain, after which Jagger is faintly heard exclaiming "Woo!" in response to Clayton's powerful delivery. Upon returning home, Clayton suffered a miscarriage, attributed by some sources to her exertions during the recording.
Just a couple of years later, in 1971, the Stones, despite having sold millions of records, were broke, even owing the British government hundreds of thousands of (equivalent) dollars apiece in taxes.
At the time, the tax rate for people making the Stones’ type of money was 90%. For each (equivalent) dollar the Stones earned, the government got 90 cents. They decided to move the band to France to avoid taxes and shelter their earnings in a Netherlands holding company.
In the end the Rolling Stones got their shelter after all.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme_Shelter